Miscellanea Edintone : Blog

Deeds are often an overlooked resource by family historians. Written in what might seem impenetrable legal language to the researcher ...
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An "incident" in the early stages of the English Civil War. There is a small stream that lies beneath the ...
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Squares through time Over the years Northampton has lost a number of its squares, some completely and remembered only in ...
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A “lost church” hidden in plain sight In some streets in London today there are so many coffee shops of ...
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Of the hundreds of people who work in the Moulton Park area of Northampton, few are probably aware that the ...
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Old maps reveal a lot about our town. The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unrecognisably in the ...
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Hidden in plain sight! Northamptonshire XLV.5 (Northampton) Surveyed: 1883 Published: 1887 Primrose Hill Congregational Chapel was built 1901-3, but it ...
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ENGLAND'S MEMORABLE ACCIDENTS, 1642. Wednesday, the 26th October. The King's Souldiers bare ransacked and spoiled the Lord Spencer's house and ...
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A series of historical notes appeared in Northampton Mercury from February 1875 onwards and ran for the next ten years. Titled ...
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A series of historical notes appeared in Northampton Mercury from October 1886 onwards and ran for the next three and a ...
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